Menlo Park: Driver injured when truck overturns

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A truck driver was injured when his truck loaded with lumber overturned Tuesday morning at a Menlo Park residential construction site, fire officials said.

Menlo Park Fire Protection District firefighters were called at 7:11 a.m. by someone who said a big-rig overturned at the Station 1300 construction project at 1300 El Camino Real.

When firefighters arrived, they learned that a lumber delivery truck, owned by Channel Lumber, had overturned and that the driver had been able to get out. He was treated by medics for back and shoulder injuries before being taken to Stanford Hospital.

Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said in a written statement: “Given the dynamics of a busy sub-surface construction site, we feel fortunate that no one else was injured and that the truck didn’t end up sliding further into the basement, or a sea of reinforcing steel rebar, which could have been catastrophic.”

Firefighters also secured a diesel fuel tank on the truck, which had started to leak after the truck overturned.

Schapelhouman said the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) was notified of the accident.

Station 1300 is a 220,000-square-foot, four-story apartment project on 6.4 acres that is expected to have 183 units.